Section I. the Promise of Reconstruction
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The Reporters
The Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy Working Paper Series THE REPORTERS By Alex Sanders Shorenstein Fellow, Fall 2004 #2005-3 Copyright © 2005, President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved THE REPORTERS In election year 2002, I ran for the United States Senate. I was the Democratic nominee from South Carolina to succeed the legendary J. Strom Thurmond (R-SC). The Republican candidate was Congressman Lindsey Graham.1 Unsurprisingly, I lost. The winners get to write the history, but the losers always tell the best stories. I have resolved to tell the story of my campaign in the form of a book. In doing so, I have struggled no less in art than life. As they say on FOX, I report, you decide. The working title is “The Losers Evening Prayer.” The title is derived from a well-known country music song. In a voice soft and trembling, She’d sing her song to cowboy as a smokey halo circled round her raven hair. And all the fallen angels and pinball playing rounders Stopped the games that they’d been playing for the losers’ evening prayer. The OakRidge Boys2 What follows here is a chapter from the book on reporters and the press. The chapter begins with a poem by Shelley. * * * * * * * Whence camest thou? And whither goeth thou? How did thy course begin? And why? Percy Bysshe Shelley3 Why? Why are you running? That is the candidate’s most dreaded question: Why? Oh sure, the Bush League reporters, the recently-minted J. school graduates, earnestly ask their pathetic little Wheres and Whens, even the occasional How. -
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection
The Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training Foreign Affairs Oral History Collection AMBASSADOR DENNIS C. JETT Interviewed by: Charles Stuart Kennedy Interview date: March 23, 2011 Copyright 2013 ADST TABLE OF CONTENTS Background Born in Massachusetts, raised in New Mexico University of New Mexico% US Naval Academy (1 year) Marriage US Naval Reserve Entered the Foreign Service in 19,2 Foreign Service .nstitute, Spanish language training Buenos Aires, Argentina/ 0olitical Officer 19,2119,2 Military 3overnment 3eneral 4anusse Elections 5uan 0eron .sabel 0eron 4eftist activities Environment 4ope7 Rega Military coups Ambassador 5ohn Davis 4odge DCM Max 8rebs 0eronistas Ambassador Robert C. Hill Timmerman 5ewish community 0hilip Agee .nside the Company Relations .nflation .mmigrants Military conscription Universities Chile Bra7il 1 State Department/ Operations Center, :atch Officer 19,2119,, ;Corridor Reputation“ Operations Advantages and disadvantages Henry 8issinger State Department/ Staff Assistant Economic Bureau 19,,119,8 Frances :ilson Operations 8issinger phone scandal Assistant Secretaries ew York City, New York/ 4eave of absence 19,8119,9 Commodity trading State Department/ Economic Bureau% Fuels and Energy Office 19,911980 Operations 4iquefied natural gas (4 3) .nternational Energy Agency O0EC 3asoline rationing proposal Trinidad and Tobago Tel Aviv, .srael/ Science AttachA 198011983 Tom Hanks Charlie :ilson Ambassadro Sam 4ewis USA.D 0rogram Congressional Delegations Arab1.srael 0eace 0lans Military relationship Evangelical Christians American1.srael 0olitical Action Committee (A.0AC) .sraeli ambassador assassination attempt Sabra and Shatila refugee camp massacres (4ebanon) Military deaths Begin uclear developments Edward Teller Recreation Environment Camp David Sinai visit etanyahu .sraeli settlements 2 State Department/ Argentine Desk Officer 198311982 0resident Raul Alfonsin U.S. -
(1750-1830), a North Carolinian Born of a Virginia Family, Arrived in Richland District in 1768 at the Age of 18
Wavering Place Katharine Allen, Historic Columbia Ownership of Joel Adams I Joel Adams I (1750-1830), a North Carolinian born of a Virginia family, arrived in Richland District in 1768 at the age of 18. In 1773, he married Grace Weston (1752-1832), the daughter of a neighboring planter, and established a 565-acre plantation east of Cedar Creek called Homestead.1 Over the next 60 years, he acquired the moniker “Joel of All,” based in part on his reputed 25,000 acres of land, which stretched in all directions from Homestead, most notably to the banks of the Congaree River.2 Upon these lands, Adams and his sons oversaw large-scale logging, agricultural, livestock, and transportation endeavors, all facilitated by the work of hundreds of enslaved men, women, and children. Upon Adams’ death in 1830, his four surviving sons and numerous grandchildren continued to act as stewards of the Adams family’s ancestral lands, ensuring that land, slaves, and profits all passed from one generation to the next.3 In 1792, Adams purchased the tract of land known today as Wavering Place from William Heatley, likely because it shared its southern border with Homestead. Adams incorporated the Heatley tract into his Homestead Plantation, and managed the lands together until 1811, when he allowed his son, Dr. William Weston Adams, to establish a separate residence here. Dr. Adams named his new domain Green Tree.4 After Joel Adams I’s death in 1830, his four surviving sons and numerous grandchildren continued to act as stewards of the Adams family’s ancestral lands, ensuring that land, profits, and an ever-growing number of enslaved individuals all passed from one generation to the next.